The Bitter Truth About Smart Homes
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 5:11 am
The current state of smart buildings often leaves much to be desired, as their intelligence is limited and their systems are not interconnected. However, the future holds great potential for transforming these buildings.
Content
Error in perception
Transforming Unintelligent Buildings into Intelligent Spaces
Industry Breakthrough: Components of a Real Smart Home
The Power of Human-Centered Design
What does the future hold?
Based on the article "Why 'Smart Buildings' need to get truly smart" by Dr. Shrikant B Sharma, AEC Magazine
Dr. Shrikant B. Sharma, Founder and CEO of SmartViz, sets out to understand the inefficiencies phone number of colombia of smart homes, the harsh reality behind them, and of course, share ways to disrupt the building industry and make buildings truly smart.
The Bitter Truth About Smart Homes
Let's face it: smart buildings are not really that smart. Yes, they are equipped with the latest technology, the latest building management systems (BMS), sensors, LED lights, intelligent control systems, smart elevators, and so on.
But these buildings aren’t intelligent. They don’t know how many people are in them or where they are. So they continue to heat and cool floors and rooms even when they’re empty or half empty. Sensors and home control systems can turn lights on and off, but they don’t adjust CO2 levels based on crowding, space elevators based on the number of people on floors at peak times, or track the percentage of energy used relative to the number of occupants to reduce carbon emissions.
The data collected by a smart control system is often proprietary. And the so-called smart components are tied to a supplier and do not connect with each other. Their actions are completely opaque, so you will never know if they are working properly or even at all! If only you could let them “talk” to each other. But no, that’s not possible.
So the hard truth is that most smart homes are not that smart, they are not data-driven, and they are certainly not people-centric.
Innovations in construction and design: from the reality of our days to unimaginable designs of the future
Error in perception
Smart homes were originally intended to have outstanding tools for balancing energy consumption, improving people's quality of life, and optimizing the operation of various building systems. In practice, this often turns out to be not the case.
Disregard for man
The reason smart homes fail to live up to their original vision is because they neglect people. Buildings should be designed and operated to provide comfortable, productive, and safe living environments for people. However, most control systems focus only on automation and data flow and do not consider how the space affects the occupants. This oversight results in suboptimal environmental conditions, and people lose touch with the smart system.
And they develop sick building syndrome, lag in productivity, become distracted at work, put their lives and health at risk at home, and are unable to concentrate on their studies in schools, colleges and universities.
Disjointed systems and data overload
Content
Error in perception
Transforming Unintelligent Buildings into Intelligent Spaces
Industry Breakthrough: Components of a Real Smart Home
The Power of Human-Centered Design
What does the future hold?
Based on the article "Why 'Smart Buildings' need to get truly smart" by Dr. Shrikant B Sharma, AEC Magazine
Dr. Shrikant B. Sharma, Founder and CEO of SmartViz, sets out to understand the inefficiencies phone number of colombia of smart homes, the harsh reality behind them, and of course, share ways to disrupt the building industry and make buildings truly smart.
The Bitter Truth About Smart Homes
Let's face it: smart buildings are not really that smart. Yes, they are equipped with the latest technology, the latest building management systems (BMS), sensors, LED lights, intelligent control systems, smart elevators, and so on.
But these buildings aren’t intelligent. They don’t know how many people are in them or where they are. So they continue to heat and cool floors and rooms even when they’re empty or half empty. Sensors and home control systems can turn lights on and off, but they don’t adjust CO2 levels based on crowding, space elevators based on the number of people on floors at peak times, or track the percentage of energy used relative to the number of occupants to reduce carbon emissions.
The data collected by a smart control system is often proprietary. And the so-called smart components are tied to a supplier and do not connect with each other. Their actions are completely opaque, so you will never know if they are working properly or even at all! If only you could let them “talk” to each other. But no, that’s not possible.
So the hard truth is that most smart homes are not that smart, they are not data-driven, and they are certainly not people-centric.
Innovations in construction and design: from the reality of our days to unimaginable designs of the future
Error in perception
Smart homes were originally intended to have outstanding tools for balancing energy consumption, improving people's quality of life, and optimizing the operation of various building systems. In practice, this often turns out to be not the case.
Disregard for man
The reason smart homes fail to live up to their original vision is because they neglect people. Buildings should be designed and operated to provide comfortable, productive, and safe living environments for people. However, most control systems focus only on automation and data flow and do not consider how the space affects the occupants. This oversight results in suboptimal environmental conditions, and people lose touch with the smart system.
And they develop sick building syndrome, lag in productivity, become distracted at work, put their lives and health at risk at home, and are unable to concentrate on their studies in schools, colleges and universities.
Disjointed systems and data overload